BY ADAM LUCENTE Afghanistan. Iraq. Syria. These are countries that come to mind when one hears the phrase “War on Terror,” or “Overseas Contingency Operation” as President Obama renamed it. France, Germany and the United Kingdom? Not so much. But will they in the future? The recent terror attacks in Paris and security actions in […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Mayor Bill DeBlasio both confirmed on Monday that Pope Francis I will visit New York City in the Fall of 2015, the first such visit by the popular pontiff. The stop is likely to be one of several planned for major cities on the East Coast, […]
BY ADAM LUCENTE Syria and Iraq are not the only territories in which ISIS is wreaking havoc: their presence on social media is now infamous as well. Naturally, the terror army’s online media organs are constantly being shutdown, perhaps at the behest of western authorities. Utilizing Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, online magazines, file sharing sites, forums […]
ISIL militants claim to have executed captured American reporter Militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a propaganda video on Tuesday showing the execution of a man purported to be American photojournalist James Wright Foley, who went missing in Syria in 2012. The video showed a kneeling man in an […]
As Iraq’s government forces continue to battle Sunni militants in the country’s north and west with the help of American airstrikes, the country’s parallel political crises deepened Sunday as embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki resisted calls to step down and accused the new president of violating Iraq’s constitution. In a nationally televised speech Sunday evening, […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan late Thursday on an unannounced visit to press the country’s two feuding presidential candidates on the urgency of ending a bitter dispute over June elections and forming a new government by early September. Kerry’s visit comes as the election results are being audited in a process […]